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Suddenly Christoph Daum shoots when he’s in SPORT1-The interview about the comparison between Kai Havertz and the super talent Florian Wirtz is addressed.
“Wirtz is not a new Havertz. Please let the boy develop, don’t make him the new Havertz and the next superstar,” says the former Bayer coach (1996 to 2000), who in 2019 was the best coach in the history of the club for the Leverkusen fans. was chosen.
Daum adds: “He has great facilities, but I don’t want to compare Wirtz to Havertz. He has to go his own way and find his own style.”
Bayer Leverkusen had to let two of their best players work last summer: Havertz (moved to Chelsea) and Kevin Volland (to AS Monaco). A great loss, without a doubt. After all, you lost two of the best offensive players in the league.
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The managing director of Sport Rudi Völler, who on Sunday CHECK24 double pass will be a guest, he had a sleepless night or two before this round, as far as squad planning goes. Patrik Schick, who moved to Leverkusen after a year on loan from AS Roma to RB Leipzig before this season, was just an offensive player who scored four times in nine games.
Third place after 14 games
Before this round, fans and experts were skeptical about this season’s location. Werkself have had a very good season so far and are second after 14 games. Even if the engine has been stuttering a bit for two games, it recently lost two hits.
Coach Peter Bosz’s team lost the first game of the new year at Eintracht Frankfurt on Saturday 1: 2. Still, things are going better than last season. By comparison: a year ago, Leverkusen finished sixth after 14 games.
Havertz’s loss was absorbed internally. Wirtz, who recently extended his contract until 2023, increasingly became the center of attention. His record in his first year as a professional: three goals in 20 games.
Praise Bailey and Bosz
The fact that Havertz and Volland’s departures are not too significant “goes back to two or three players,” Daum says. “Last season Leon Bailey was responsible almost exclusively for attractive offensive actions. Now he has understood how to recover a ball on defense and take the painful roads for the sake of team success,” says the 67-year-old. . This is a “great achievement for Peter Bosz”.
Midfielder Julian Baumgartlinger, who moved from Mainz to Leverkusen in 2016, also received high praise from Daum. “He is extremely valuable and plays the defensive role against defense as a vacuum cleaner in midfield very reliably.”
Baumgartlinger’s creativity “isn’t that great, but the service from his team is.” Daum finds positive words and has to smile about the development of another Bayer professional, who in the past became known as a Leichtfuß brother. We are talking about the national player Jonathan Tah.
Tah “much improved”
“Tah of all people, who had stabilized this season and was no longer allowed to make careless mistakes, made this misstep against Bayern,” recalls Daum. “But overall it has improved a lot.”
And you know why, although there has been a bit of sand in the machine for two games. Bosz knows how to bring “optimal stress management” to the “excellent” team in the crown phase. The Dutchman, who has been in charge for two years, has exactly the right instinct.
Völler had that recently when he extended his contract with Wirtz. But Daum raises his index finger and warns: “A new hype with imaginary transfer fees would be completely wrong.”
